Commentary and Tracking of a Portfolio of Stocks using approach from "The Little Book that Beats the Market" by Joel Greenblatt aka Magic Formula Investing

Saturday, December 14, 2013

MFI Index Stocks This Quarter

I thought my readers would be interested in how my 50 stocks in my MFI Index have done this quarter and for the year. On the quarter, they are up a respectable 4.4%. Of course the R3K is up 5.6%, so as I have mentioned several times we are starting to lag a bit. On the year though, up a very snappy 44%.

POZN has been the star performer of the quarter, up 57%! I knew I should have bought them. SAVE has also been very strong, up over 25%. Of course, one of my faves, NUS is up 34%. Sweet. That shows how difficult it is to pick when to sell a stock.

STRA, IDCC and USNA have been some of the bigger losers.

Index

Stock

Start

Last Quarter

Current

YTD Change

Quarterly Change

Shares

1

APOL

20.92

20.81

24.96

19.3%

19.9%

11.14

2

AGX

18.00

21.97

26.75

48.6%

21.8%

12.95

3

BAH

13.92

19.61

18.86

35.5%

-3.8%

16.75

4

CA

21.98

30.42

33.40

52.0%

9.8%

10.61

5

CPLA

28.23

56.56

65.02

130.3%

15.0%

8.26

6

CF

203.16

211.43

227.27

11.9%

7.5%

1.15

7

CSCO

19.65

23.77

21.02

7.0%

-11.6%

11.86

8

DELL

10.14

13.91

14.02

38.3%

0.8%

22.99

9

DLX

32.24

42.41

49.65

54.0%

17.1%

7.23

10

DMRC

20.70

20.53

18.60

-10.1%

-9.4%

11.26

11

DLB

29.33

34.51

37.44

27.7%

8.5%

7.95

12

GME

25.09

50.48

46.71

86.2%

-7.5%

9.29

13

GNI

67.20

74.25

82.28

22.4%

10.8%

3.47

14

GTAT

3.03

8.51

8.05

165.7%

-5.4%

76.93

15

HLF

32.94

70.67

69.80

111.9%

-1.2%

7.08

16

HFC

46.55

43.71

48.26

3.7%

10.4%

5.01

17

IDCC

41.09

37.64

32.34

-21.3%

-14.1%

5.67

18

INTX

9.48

9.37

8.94

-5.7%

-4.6%

24.59

19

ESI

17.31

31.00

33.24

92.0%

7.2%

13.47

20

JCOM

30.60

50.23

46.35

51.5%

-7.7%

7.62

21

KLIC

11.99

11.55

12.42

3.6%

7.5%

19.44

22

LPS

24.62

33.57

35.94

46.0%

7.1%

9.47

23

MANT

25.94

29.39

29.12

12.3%

-0.9%

8.99

24

MSFT

26.71

33.97

38.19

43.0%

12.4%

8.73

25

NATR

14.48

20.81

18.85

30.2%

-9.4%

16.10

26

NSU

4.28

3.24

3.12

-27.1%

-3.7%

54.47

27

NTI

25.44

22.90

28.17

10.7%

23.0%

9.16

28

NUS

37.05

96.64

130.01

250.9%

34.5%

6.29

29

PDLI

7.04

8.27

8.85

25.7%

7.0%

33.11

30

PETS

11.10

16.75

16.01

44.2%

-4.4%

21.00

31

PBI

10.64

18.94

22.91

115.3%

20.9%

21.91

32

POOSF

1.42

-

-

-100.0%

0.0%

164.63

33

POZN

5.01

5.73

9.02

80.0%

57.4%

46.53

34

QCOR

26.72

58.75

54.48

103.9%

-7.3%

8.72

35

RTN

57.56

78.17

87.36

51.8%

11.8%

4.05

36

RPXC

9.04

17.54

16.29

80.2%

-7.1%

25.79

37

SAI

11.32

17.27

16.48

45.6%

-4.6%

20.59

38

STX

30.42

44.52

50.60

66.3%

13.7%

7.66

39

SVLC

2.52

1.77

1.59

-36.9%

-10.2%

92.51

40

SAVE

17.73

34.27

43.36

144.6%

26.5%

13.15

41

STRA

56.17

41.52

33.94

-39.6%

-18.3%

4.15

42

TNAV

7.99

5.84

6.19

-22.5%

6.0%

29.18

43

TZOO

18.99

26.52

20.93

10.2%

-21.1%

12.28

44

UIS

17.30

25.19

29.48

70.4%

17.0%

13.47

45

USMO

11.68

14.54

13.68

17.1%

-5.9%

19.96

46

USNA

32.93

86.79

74.06

124.9%

-14.7%

7.08

47

EGY

8.65

5.58

6.50

-24.9%

16.5%

26.95

48

VCI

25.78

29.50

29.45

14.2%

-0.2%

9.04

49

VG

2.37

3.14

3.22

35.9%

2.5%

98.36

50

WCRX

12.04

23.18

23.18

92.5%

0.0%

19.36

Total

11,656

16,055

16,759

44.1%

4.4%

On interesting aspect about MFI is that often it does not matter whether you have a new portfolio or one approaching completion. As a portfolio, the MFI stocks often perform about the same in magnitude. A great example is if you look at the 50 stocks in the September 27th MFI tracking portfolio. They are up 5.7%. So yes, a little bit better than the 50 stocks picked January 1st, but not a huge difference.